01 Jan 2003
Automatic Writing
Charcoal animation, taken from from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (2003).
Wax Experiments
For the production of this film, Oskar Fischinger tinted various layers of hot wax. After cooling, the resulting lump of wax resembled a marble cake. Fischinger then began to cut off slices from the lump, photographing each step.
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